User talk:Midiscore

Hi Midiscore, welcome to Wikiversity, and thanks for uploading Music/Software/Programming drums! You said there: "I really hope this got across since its extremely difficult to explain with text" - I know exactly what you mean. I think that, as much as possible, we should be capturing screenshots of what we're working with (eg the 16 beat loop), in order to show people that this is how it's structured. Even better would be to capture screencasts of what we do and/or record the audio output a setting makes. All of this would make such a page really useful. I'm very much interested in this area, however i don't have access to my audio software and am waiting on an installer CD in the post. Once I get that, I can play around with it. Meantime, knock yourself out! ;-) Cormaggio talk 20:53, 1 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the effort. But yes, you're right that .swf and .mp3 are both proprietary (ie non-free/open) formats, and therefore are (currently) disallowed from Wikimedia projects, including Wikiversity. (This might be something we can look into for the future - Meta:Multimedia might give some info.) In the meantime, you want to just make your work available somehow! There is a way of converting swf to a free video format (eg "Ogg Theora"), but as far as I can make it out, it is difficult, and requires a bit of technical knowhow, as well as software. You might be best asking about this on the Colloquium (Wikiversity's general discussion page), or on some technical IRC channel, eg. #wikimedia-tech (requires IRC client). As for audio, you can convert to a free sound format (eg. "Ogg Vorbis") relatively easily by downloading the free software program Audacity (though maybe other programs do it also), and using that to export the mp3 file to Ogg Vorbis. That will then be able to be uploaded to Wikiversity. There are plans underway to be able to embed and play both of these "Ogg" formats within a Wikimedia page, so it might be good to work with that. Sorry for the hassle though - hopefully it'll be worth it. Cormaggio talk 12:21, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Another way, of course, is if you have webspace, you can upload anything you want there and link to it from Wikiversity. However, this is a less desirable option, as, you can imagine, people could link to any old porn/spam, making it difficult for us to monitor what quality of info Wikiversity is providing. Cormaggio talk 12:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

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unfortunately ive got too little time :( shame ....